Do you believe in fairies?

Chapter 26: ADOLESCENCE

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About This Book

A collection of short fantasies and lyrical poems written with a childlike eye, presenting whimsical encounters with fairies, goblins, and other small marvels set against ordinary streets and countryside. Narrative vignettes follow children and curious adults into secret glades, enchanted stones, and musical charms, while interleaved rhymes, ballades, and reflective sketches touch on adolescence, religion, city nights, and domestic humor. The pieces blend playful imagination with mild melancholy and moral observation, inviting readers to rediscover wonder in commonplace scenes through concise storylets and musical verse.

ADOLESCENCE

Childlike still, we gaze at fleeting fairy thoughts,

Childlike still, we cast pale shadows in the air—

Civilized imaginations—weakling sparks

That we’ve folded fast in words—and buried there.

Look: A school of doves on silver-frosted wings

Hold the sunshine for a moment as they fly,

Toss a vagrant shaft of sunbeams in the air

As they float across a shining turquoise sky.

For a moment there’s the glitter of their wings ...

Just a moment ... then the sunbeam melts away

And the happy brightness of the turquoise sky

Has faded, like their silver wings, to grey.